SEMINAR ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COMPOSER AND DIRECTOR ​On 22 May 2017, composers, film directors, producers and music agents gathered in Cannes in the framework of the European Film Music Day (EFMD). The fifth edition of the EFMD concluded with new insights into music composed for video games and a very special film music prize – the HARPA Nordic Film Composers Awards. This first panel revealed the complexity of the collaborative relationship between film composers and film directors, which in the words of Dan Clifton (film director and Chairman of FERA) should provide for a music creation process which must be ‘organic’. In the panel is also filmcomposers Christine Aufderhaar and Sophia Ersson and filmdirector Alexandra-Therésé Keining. The panel was moderated by Thor Joachim Hage and filmed by Birgit Løkke

SEMINAR ON GAMECOMPOSERS Presentation on the outcome of the Nordic survey on the situation of video game composers and a presentation of the results of the Creators’ Roundtable in Los Angeles with ECSA President Alfons Karabuda and ECSA Secretary General Patrick Ager. The presentation will be followed by a discussion with French video game composer Olivier Derivière about his work and the current situation of European video game composers. The panel is moderated by Thor Joachim Haga and filmed by Nicklas Schmidt.